test please delete

[DoctorStrangelove]

I think we may be due an 'om' soon as it's 10 pages since the last one.

Indeed. Om.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a roast beef bap (wholemeal)

I showed the stakeholders my idea for preventing any further accidents like the one last Thursday, and they agreed it was acceptable. It’s just a case of removing some options from a form, on the basis that they need to be the default values 90%+ of the time anyway. There's a link to the existing full-blown form for those occasions when they need that, but it makes it less likely somebody will finish up there and make a mistake

So now I need to go and sort out any UI tests and so on. I’m finding that because I’m mostly making minor changes at the moment, I end up spending more time either adding or modifying tests to account for them

[ladymuck]

HWMBO has arrived to stay for a while.

There's an offer on a gin I like at Sainsbury's but the one near me doesn't have it in stock. Hopefully it's available in the store near Mum and I can stock up when I visit her on Sunday.

[NickFitz]

Tea: sausages, chips, and beans

Accompanied by part one of the new Murder Case from BBC Scotland, about the dog walker who was shot in the face with a double-barrelled shotgun - but the police didn’t notice straight away and decided he’d fallen over, which delayed the inquiry quite a bit

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s reading was the rest of The Martian Chronicles which I enjoyed enough that, as I was clearly in the mood for Ray Bradbury, I started Fahrenheit 451 and got through the first part thereof

This afternoon, coming into the bedroom to close the blinds, I was astonished to see the bedside thermometer reading 30°C. It didn’t feel that hot in here, and after a few moments I realised that the sun was shining on it. Once the blinds were drawn, it rapidly fell to 25°. Then later in the afternoon, the thermometer on the desktop was claiming it was 34.5° which turned out to be because it was right next to the mug of coffee I’d just made

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc, no rain forecast.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky clear as a bell. Should be 10 10ths cloud cover by 1800 since there's something going on in the sky.

22.2 deg in here, 24 in the kitchen, 21.5 in the leanto, 19 out the back, 18.9 in the saltinghouse.

1014.5 mBar, 29.96 in Hg, 760.9 Torr, 14.71 psi, (unchanged), 61% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of April 2020, between 15:31 and 16:32, barrydidit, eek, LM, MrMarkyMark, NF and I popped in, with NF remarking that it had just reached the dizzying heights of 12 deg C and there was a shortage of red lentils and rice.

Irritatingly, the 14:00 (13:55) appointment at the barbers has changed to 13:00, so today's Movies thing will be abbreviated somewhat.

Shopping trip to that Tesco: 38 out, 4 back, no Tesco battered cod or haddock to be found, thusly it's indeterminate "white fish" as a stopgap.

Hot out there & I have to go down town at noon GMT to the barbers.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Movies: nouveau horror. Not of much innerest to me as it transpires.

R4 thing about Mossadeq and the CIA and Kermit the frog Roosevelt. I wonder what the world would look like if the septics had stayed out of other people's countries instead of installing fascists left right & centre. Next ep is The Triumph of Vietnam. (Thank feck for Harold Wilson for keeping us out of that debacle).

I no longer have much in the way of hair. Number One for the win.

[xoggoth]

Scrabble with old lady neighbour soon. Usually do my walky late these days to avoid the sun but have to do earlier today cos of this eclipsy thing. Have to find somewhere dark and woody.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky. There was a wisp earlier but it's gone now. Thankfully there's a snifter of a breeze. Currently 27 degrees with a high of 33 expected . Barometer steady at 1024 mBar.

Sunrise 05:42; Sunset 20:30 BST

Doing a couple of hours' presenteeism for billing purposes while seeing what more substantial gigs may be out there. Also having a look at training / certificate updates in case an extra bit of paper will chivvy things along a bit.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

I overslept a bit this morning! Only just had time to get through the usual morning rituals and settle down to work

It’s 29°C here and very sunny, with an expected high of 31° - I think that’s slightly less than was being predicted for today earlier in the week, though tomorrow’s forecast is still 34°. The barometers are down a touch at 1011/1019mB

Lunch has been some M&S cold cocktail sausages

I gather those who believe the media are lying about everything, or who regard ChatGPT as the fount of all wisdom, will be blinding themselves this evening by staring directly at the sun - or possibly using binoculars if the AI tells them to. I got around to ordering some proper eclipse glasses online, and have also been investigating the possibility of sticking one set of them over the phone camera and setting it up on the little tripod to get some photos. Apparently this can be done without damaging the sensor if one’s sensible about it. Anyway, the phone’s a few years old and I’ll probably be getting a new one this year or the next, so I don’t mind taking the risk

Mind you, it’s possible the sun will be behind the roof of the very big Victorian villa a couple of doors down